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is there a limit to how tall a Vav or Zayin can be?

Some of the Vavs, while the same length as the other standard letters, are almost hard to accept as Vavs. Is there any point where we'd draw the line? It's not as if the sofer had no choice. He could have made the letters end at the halfway point between the sirtut rather than fill most of the space. (This also caused him to make a shortish neck on a Lamed and create a shaila on one of the Dalets.

The bigger issue is the Dalet is Aridasa. The small letters and small Aseres and tall Vavs are kosher.The point isn't אין שיעור לעובי האותיות but rather that even though in their own right it's an issue and we do normally judge letters in their own right as per a number of sources, when the letter is part of a tall word or ksav of a tall amud, mezuzah or parsha and in comparison to the surrounding letters it's clearly looks like the correct letter then it's kosher.

At least acc to Rav Elyashiv, the Reish does not lack hiddur b/c of the Mishnas Avraham. Stretched letters may lack hiddur b/c of the fact they're stretched. (In megillah, where they need to be stretched in Aseres to make the lines finish evenly it would seem that it's not considered a lack of hiddur when stretching appropriate letters.

פרשנדתא his ת is way too smallדלפון the ו too longפורתא also long ואדליא head of ל is shortארידתא the ד is too narrowפרמשתא the ש is too smallאריסי stretched ר ארדי might have a extra יויזתא long ו AND small ז!

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